SB426 (Neighborhood Stability): Carlos Padilla My name is Carlos Padilla. I’m a baker and have been a Culinary Union member for 30 years. I remember when my rent was $1,200 a month for a 3-bedroom just a couple years ago. Now I’m paying $1,800. After getting another rent increase recently, I asked the landlord if [...]
Elida Amador, guest room attendant and Culinary Union member since 2015 - When we moved to Las Vegas in 2015 we were able to find a house to rent in North Las Vegas. We lived there for 4 years, but things were not so great. The house and yard were too small. We couldn’t have [...]
Florentino Becerra, North Las Vegas renter, kitchen worker - I'm a single-dad with a 12-year-old son. Currently, I am renting a two-bedroom and one-bathroom apartment in North Las Vegas, and I’ve been living there for 10 years. My parents have lived with me since I got divorced, and I have 50% custody of my son. [...]
James Loreto, in room dining and room service, Culinary Union member for 21 years - As a North Las Vegas resident for 15 years, I support the Neighborhood Stability ballot initiative. I went to school in North Las Vegas and raised my kids there with the dream that one day they can own a home [...]
Thank you so much for taking on the issue of rising rent as individuals like myself or son cannot do it. My son is going to school at UNLV and is renting a 1-bedroom apartment. It scares me to know that rent is not regulated and needs to have limits. It will get out of [...]
Melanie Arizmendi, college student and North Las Vegas resident - I am a 22-year-old daughter of immigrants, a North Las Vegas resident, and a college student with the hope of becoming a nurse one day. If I could write down every place where my family moved growing up, I think I could write a novel. [...]
Rocio Puente, guest room attendant and Culinary Union member for 24 years - My husband and I own a home in North Las Vegas for 18 years. We bought our house because we wanted to stop paying rent that keeps going up and I saw that homeownership was a better investment for the future of [...]
Ronald Gladstone, kitchen steward, Culinary Union member since 1983 - My wife and I bought our home in North Las Vegas in January 2020 right before the COVID-19 pandemic hit. Before we bought our home, we rented a place for 16 years. The owners of the house we rented kept promising that they would sell [...]
Dora Arizmendi, Culinary Union member, shop steward, guest room attendant - I have 4 beautiful daughters and I have lived in North Las Vegas for about 10 years. I had previously owned a home in 2008, but unfortunately I lost it during the Great Recession when it went into foreclosure, which was really sad for [...]
Hadiza Sadiq, Bartenders Union member, shop steward - I have been living in North Las Vegas for 8-years and I own a 4-bedroom/3-bath home in North Las Vegas. I decided to buy my home because as a renter, we were paying someone else’s mortgage and I wanted to own something that was my own and [...]
